Amid all the Conroe excitement at E3, Dell unveiled its Core 2 Duo based system, promising it would be the PC vendor's most customizable system ever.

Armed with four nVidia GeForce 7900-based graphics cards, the quad-SLI machine will ship under Dell XPS Renegade 700 brand, a marketing platform that Dell hopes will merit the expected US$10,000 price tag. Interestingly enough, the system will also ship enabled with nVidia's new core logic for Intel, additional acceleration expected to benefit Intel's next generation offerings.

Encased in a sexy aluminum case, the new computing beasts are expected to be cool and silent, despite the new dual-core chips and quad-SLI graphics. Aimed at those for whom money is no object, Dell will still likely do quite well with these, especially given that the last Renegade offerings sold out so quickly. Due to all the new silicon and features–especially the expected performance boost–rich Geeks are likely to jump on this as soon as they can. For the rest of us, we’ll just have to do with our standard custom systems.

??(10:55am EST Mon May 15 2006)would someone actual *PAY* for such a system?!

I can't imageing someone paying more then US$4,000 for a machine, unless it is a server. And those 4k machines are uselly high end notebooks that are needed to make money.

oh well…. it will most certinaly be a weast of money… after all, there is a single game that is avaliable (or in the making) that requare such specs.- by some random idot

Random Idiot(11:04am EST Mon May 15 2006)People used to routinely fork out $4000 for top of the line PCs, hell, even mid-rangers used to cost $2000, of course that was long ago before PCs became commodities.- by HighlandCynic

I do read(11:22am EST Mon May 15 2006)Like I said who needs the AMD systems builders. Dell bought Alienware for some PR.. and that is about it.

Waiting for a real christmas present.

Dual core Conroe. I'm going to cash in my AMD options I bought when it was sitting at 40 bucks. What a sucker when I exercise them babies!

I'll be able to by a $7K gaming Conroe and still have money to buy my honey a 4carat ring from Costco - by a INTEL Gamer

Yeah….(11:50am EST Mon May 15 2006)but will it run Vista?

hehe - by person

RTFA(12:20pm EST Mon May 15 2006)Silent? No, QUIET. That is not the same thing. I'm sure under decent enough load it will sound like a small airliner. “Dell says that the new XPS will come in a specially-designed aluminum case that will ensure efficient cooling, quiet operation and easy expansion.” – X-bit

Sexy Aluminum case? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. I think for 10k I'd be wanting a nicer case without that huge “Intel Core 2″ sticker on the front!

Computers like this prove one thing – there are people with more money than common sense. If I had $10,000 to *blow* on a PC, I like to think I'd get a nice one for $4-5,000 and give 10 $500 PCs to my local school district. - by JRink

Performance(12:37pm EST Mon May 15 2006)What kind of performance increase do you really get going from SLI to Quad-SLI? It seems like a very large expenditure (~$1000), so I am wondering what this system can do that the system with a mere 2 GeForce 7900s can't do. Are you paying $1000 more for 2% improvement? And extra couple a Fps on DOOM3 that you wouldn't notice anyhow?I don't know, can somebody who has done this tell me? - by Cynic

more (1:25pm EST Mon May 15 2006)Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment — a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you — based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign. - by geek

read at(1:28pm EST Mon May 15 2006)[save the internet] - by geek

Hmmm(5:48pm EST Mon May 15 2006)Would still build my own phase change based FX60 system, with 2 X1900XTX's, that would beat Dells system easy and still have enough money left over to buy a house :)

Dell has never been good at selling gaming machines, if they think that trend is gonna change for the better for them, i think they are on crack.